In his new blog post, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski, talk about the Annual QP Salary Survey that took place this month. In a brief summary, the results showed that “…This year, for the first time since QP began its annual salary survey, the most important indicator—average salary—has become frustratingly stuck in Read more…
With the purpose of celebrating November – The World Quality Month, I’ve asked people on Twitter (hash-tag #qualitymeaning) and LinkedIn a simple/complex question: What does QUALITY mean to you? I’ve received a lot of replays and of course, I would like to share some of them with you, and you Read more…
I’ve started a Twitter game asking people to answer a simple/complex question to celebrate November – World Quality Month: What does QUALITY mean to you? Please, use the hashtag #qualitymeaning to share your thoughts. Join us in the celebration! Visit this site often to learn about quality tools and techniques, heroes, stories of quality in practice Read more…
“How well understood and embraced are the contributions of the quality professional beyond what is traditionally thought of as the quality function?” asked Paul Borawski in his October discussion blog post. From my experience as Quality Assurance Engineer in the software field, quality has been seen as “a bunch of Read more…
World Quality Month (WQM) is an annual celebration of quality and its impact in the world. Through the joint efforts of people passionate about quality and numerous quality organizations around the world, WQM was inaugurated in November 2010. WQM was established to reignite attention once generated in the 1980s by Read more…
In his September blog post, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski asked to the Influential Voices group “how the practice of quality could evolve to support the needs of a rapidly changing world…Or why quality should not change despite the needs of faster faster faster changes”Some people say – yes, quality has to Read more…
Waste elimination is one of the Lean principles and one of the most effective ways to increase quality and reduce cost. While products and services differ between industries, waste or muda – everything that does not add value from the perspective of the customer, or any material/resource beyond what the Read more…
Lean Software Development (LSD) is a term originated from a popular book by the same name, written by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. In such book, they presented the first translation of Lean principles to software development, plus 22 thinking tools to help translate those principles into agilepractices. Having its roots Read more…
Culture can be defined in many ways, it is:– a set of shared beliefs, attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an organization; – the way employees actually behave, think and believe – “the way we do things around here”;– the personality of an organization;– a “walk the talk”. A Read more…
Lean Software Development (LSD) is a term originated from a popular book by the same name, written by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. In such book, they presented the first translation of Lean principles to software development, plus 22 thinking tools to help translate those principles into agile practices. Having its Read more…
Waste elimination is one of the Lean principles and one of the most effective ways to increase quality and reduce cost. While products and services differ between industries, waste or muda –everything that does not add value from the perspective of the customer, or any material/resource beyond what the customer Read more…
Today’s follow-up post is written by Christian Paulsen, Senior Lean Six Sigma Consultant with over 20 years of manufacturing leadership experience. I recently asked the question, SPC…What’s the point? in a post that was more about leadership than SPC. That blog stressed that Lean Leaders don’t implement systems like Statistical Read more…
